Sunday, January 3, 2016

As per Bipertite agreement==================================================================THERE ARE TOO MUCH TALKS IN THE MARKET ABOUT LEAVE RULES AND STAFF ALWAYS BEING DEPRIVED OFF THEIR RIGHTS.....FIND THE RULES EASY=================================================================

An update on leave ....

LEAVE RULES

Casual Leave1. Eligible for 12 days in a year. 2. Shall be earned on a pro-rata basis during the first year of service - at the rate of one day for each completed month or part thereof. 3. Can be taken 4 days at a time. The holidays and weekly offs prefixing/ suffixing or falling within the period of Casual Leave will not be treated as part of casual leave.(The ceiling of total period of absence of 6 days including holidays was now removed in 10thBPS). 4. CL cannot be combined with any other kind of leave.Un availed Casual Leave Casual leave not availed in a calendar year isconvertible into sick leave with full substantive pay except during the first year. It can be availed only on the grounds ofsickness. There is no time limit for availing
UCL accumulated in a year by clerical staff , however for officers UCL
can b availed within three years of its accumulation e.g. UCL of 2012
can b availed upto 31.12.2015. After that it lapses. UCL can be availed without MC for 4 days at a time once in a year or two days at a time twice in a year. For one day on any number of occasions, MC is not necessary.

Privilege Leave 1. Calculated at the rate of one day for every eleven days of active service. While calculating PL, all kinds of leave availed except CL shall be excluded. 2. Can be availed only on completion of 11 months of service. Generally 4 occasions in a calendar year, though one occasion may comprise even a single day. (known as PL under domestic grounds). 3. However, the reasons for the request by an employee for leave on more than 4 occasions in ayear are adequate and genuine and it is not administratively inconvenient, such leave may be granted. PL should be applied before 15 days of the proposed date of commencement of leave. 4. PL on medical grounds can be granted for more than 4 days at a time on production of Medical Certificate which will not be counted in the above 4 occasions. 5. The restriction with regard to the number of times of availing PL, mentioned in Para 3 above, does not apply to members of Executive Committee of a Registered Trade Union. A member of Executive Committee can avail PL for any number of times for organizational work.(of course, within his eligible leave) 6. PL can be accumulated up to 270 days and on retirement the encashment is restricted only to 240 days.

Sick Leave 1. An employee is entitled to sick leave on half substantive pay, at the rate of one month for each year of service subject to a maximum of 18 months (540 days) during his entire service, provided that where an employee has put in a service of 24 years, he shall be eligible to additional sick leave atthe rate of one month for each year of service in excess of 24 years, subject to 3 months of additional sick leave. For availing sick leave the employee has to submit MC. 2. An employee can convert the half-pay sick leave in to full pay sick leave. But twice the period of leave will be debited. 3. During the first year of service sick leave will be granted on prorate basis. 4. Sick Leave can be availed for any number of days. 5. Sick Leave can be availed without Medical Certificate by an employee for a maximum period of 10 days in a calendar year not exceeding two days at a time after exhausting the Casual Leave. 6. Sick Leave can be clubbed with PL, ML and UCL.

Maternity Leave

1. Maternity leave which shall be on substantive pay shall be granted to a female employee for a period not exceeding 6 months on any one occasion and 12 months during the entire period of her service. 2. Within the overall period of 12 months, leave may also be granted in case of miscarriage/ abortion/MTP. 3. Within the overall period of 12 months,leave may also be granted in case of hysterectomy up to a maximum of 60 days. 4. ML is available even in the first year of service. Probationers are also eligible. But the probation period will be extended to that extent. 5. Leave may also be granted once during service to a childless female employee for Legally adopting a child who is below one year of age, for a maximum period of six months, subject to the following terms and conditions:- i) Leave will be granted for adoption of only one child. ii) The adoption of a child should be through a proper legal process and the employee should produce the adoption-deed to the Bank for sanctioning such leave. iii) The Permanent Part-time Employees are also eligible for grant of leave for adoption of a child. iv) The Leave shall also be available to biological mother in cases where the child is born through surrogacy. v) The leave shall be availed within overall entitlement of 12 months during the entire period of service.

Paternity Leave With effect from the 1st June 2015, male employees with less than two surviving children shall be eligible for 15 days Paternity Leave during his wife’s confinement. This leave may be combined with any other kind of leave except CasualLeave. The leave may be availed upto 15 days before or upto 6 months from the date of delivery of the child.

Extra-ordinary Leave 1. An employee is eligible for extraordinary leave on loss of pay when no other kind of leave is due to the employee. 2. This leave is granted not exceeding 3 months on any one occasion with a maximum of 24 months in the entire period of service. Can be combined with or in continuation of any kind of leave except CL. 3. Period of leave on LOP shall not count for increments and increment date will be postponed. Special Casual Leave for Blood Donation Employees who donate blood to a recognized blood bank or Bank sponsored blood donation drive are eligible for special CL for one day, on the day of blood donation, subject to the production of satisfactory documentary proof.

Special Leave for Vasectomy / Sterilization ( 1). 6 days CL for male employees forundergoing Sterilization. (2). 14 days special CL for female employeeswho undergo non puerperal Tubectomy operation. (3). 1 day special CL for female employee, who had IUD insertions. (4). 7 days CL to male employees whose wife undergoes Non Puerperal Tubectomy operation subject to the production of MC from the doctor who performed the operation to that effect that the presence of the male employee is essential for the period of leave to look after his wife during her convalescence after operation. Leave to commence on the day of operation. (5). An employee developing post-operative complication after sterilization may be granted CL to that extent of the period for which he or she is hospitalized for such post operative complication, subject to production of necessary certificate from the concerned hospital authorities. (6). An employee is not entitled to special CL after maternity leave, if the sterilization operation, recanalisation was done during the maternity leave. Special Sick Leave ,With effect from the 01.06.2015
special Sick Leave up to 30 days may be granted to an employee once during his/her entire period of service for donation of kidney/organ.

Sabbatical Leave (Govt.Scheme) for Women Employees Permanent female employees with minimum of 5 years of Service are eligible. In exceptional circumstances, employees with less than 5 years of service can also apply. Purpose of leave is medical grounds, care of family members or children, higher studies, visit spouse, etc. Period of leave shall be minimum of 3 months at a time and shall not be taken more than once in a year, maximum of 2 years during entire career. Total period of leave including earlier Sabbatical scheme, EOL and extra-ordinary leave under Bi- partite shall not exceed 3 years.

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OUR LEAVE RULES

Casual Leave

1. Eligible for 12 days in a year.
2. Shall be earned on a pro-rata basis during the first year of service
- at the rate of one day for each completed month or part thereof.
3. Can be taken 4 days at a time. The holidays and weekly offs
prefixing/suffixing or falling within the period of Casual Leave will
not be treated as part of casual leave. (The ceiling of total period of
absence of 6 days including holidays was now removed in (10th BPS). 4. CL cannot be combined with any other kind of leave.
5. Unavailed Casual Leave : Casual leave not availed in a calendar
year is convertible into sick leave with full substantive pay except
during the first year. It can be availed only on the grounds of
sickness. There is no time limit for availing UCL accumulated in a year
by clerical staff , however for officers UCL can b availed within three
years of its accumulation e.g. UCL of 2012 can be availed up to
31.12.2015. After that it lapses. UCL can be availed without MC for 4
days at a time once in a year or two days at a time twice in a year. For
one day on any number of occasions, MC is not necessary.

Privilege Leave

1. Calculated at the rate of one day for every eleven days of active
service. While calculating PL, all kinds of leave availed except CL
shall be excluded. 2. Can be availed only on completion of 11
months of service. Generally 4 occasions in a calendar year, though one
occasion may comprise even a single day. (known as PL under domestic
grounds). 3. However, the reasons for the request by an employee for
leave on more than 4 occasions in a year are adequate and genuine and
it is not administratively inconvenient, such leave may be granted. PL
should be applied before 15 days of the proposed date of commencement of
leave. 4. PL on medical grounds can be granted for more than 4 days
at a time on production of Medical Certificate which will not be
counted in the above 4 occasions. 5. The restriction with regard to
the number of times of availing PL, mentioned in Para 3 above, does not
apply to members of Executive Committee of a Registered Trade Union. A
member of Executive Committee can avail PL for any number of times for
organisational work.(of course, within his eligible leave) 6. PL can be accumulated up to 270 days and on retirement the encashment is restricted only to 240 days.

Sick Leave

(1). An employee is entitled to sick leave on half substantive pay, at
the rate of one month for each year of service subject to a maximum of
18 months (540 days) during his entire service, provided that where an
employee has put in a service of 24 years, he shall be eligible to
additional sick leave at the rate of one month for each year of service
in excess of 24 years, subject to 3 months of additional sick leave. For
availing sick leave the employee has to submit MC. (2). An employee can convert the half-pay sick leave in to full pay sick leave. But twice the period of leave will be debited.(3). During the first year of service sick leave will be granted on prorate basis. (4). Sick Leave can be availed for any number of days.
(5). Sick Leave can be availed without Medical Certificate by an employee
for a maximum period of 10 days in a calendar year not exceeding two
days at a time after exhausting the Casual Leave. (6). Sick Leave can be clubbed with PL, ML and UCL.

Maternity Leave
1. Maternity leave which shall be on substantive pay shall be granted
to a female employee for a period not exceeding 6 months on any one
occasion and 12 months during the entire period of her service. 2. Within the overall period of 12 months, leave may also be granted in case of miscarriage/abortion/MTP. 3. Within the overall period of 12 months, leave may also be granted in case of hysterectomy up to a maximum of 60 days.
4. ML is available even in the first year of service. Probationers are
also eligible. But the probation period will be extended to that extent. 5. Leave may also be granted once during service to a childless female employee for legally adopting a child who

Saturday, January 2, 2016

*Note : In-house development of the
requisite software and its linkage with

SBI Pensioners’ Portal will be done
by SBI, GITC, Belapur. However, till such time the software is ready, the
following process will be adopted:

a)Eligible retirees will fill up the
application form manually by downloading the same from the 'Pensioner's Portal' or link below or by
physical collection from branches and submit to the pension paying branch along
with two latest joint photographs of self and spouse.

b)The branch will arrange for
debiting the applicant’s account with the amount of applicable insurance
premium along with service tax @ + 0.50% Swachha Bharat cess and credit the
same to a newly opened current account styled as ‘Mediclaim Policy for SBI
Retirees (Policy -‘B’)’to be maintained by the concerned Zonal Office and
forward the completed application forms [mentioning (a) Transaction No. (b)
Date of Transaction; and (c) Amount] to concerned Zonal Office for further action.